[Interview] ”Squid Game 2” Lee Byung Hun, ”Season 2 is even more interesting”... With Lee Jung Jae for the first time in 20 years

Actor Lee Byung Hun shared his thoughts on starring in "Squid Game 2". On the 13th, Netflix announced that Lee Byung Hun, who will star in "Squid Game" season 2 following season 1,
Lee Byung Hun said, "People often say that Season 2 can't beat Season 1, but I personally found the script for Season 2 more interesting," and added, "I thought, 'I'm going to face this.
Will there be another blank script?' But the director changed very small details on set and it turned out much better," he said, raising expectations for Season 2.
Lee Byung Hun also commented on Lee Jung Jae, "It's been a long time since I last worked with Lee Jung Jae on a TV series about 20 years ago.
He added, "It was a really good time working with a fellow actor with whom I have a long history and a friendship."
"Squid Game" is a survival game with a prize of 45.6 billion won, where participants risk their lives to be the final winner.
It is a Netflix series that tells the story of a group of people who take on the ultimate challenge of a game. The popular "Squid Game" returns with Season 2, and the characters vow to take revenge and challenge the game again.
It includes a fierce battle between Ki-hoon (played by Lee Jung Jae) who joins the group and the "front man" (played by Lee Byung Hun) who welcomes him, as well as the real game starting up again.
The main characters in season 1 were Sang-woo (Park Hae-soo), Sae-byuk (Jung Ho Yeon), Ji-yeong (Lee Yumi), and Deok-soo (Ho
The cast members, including Song Tae (played by Lee Joon-hee), Ali (played by Anupam), and others, left the show due to their deaths, and in season 2, Siwan (played by ZE:A), Kang HaNeul, Park GyuYoung, LEEJINWOO, Park Sung Hoon, and Yang Dong Geun were added as new members.
Lee Byung Hun Q&A (Full text) Q. The appearance of "Frontman" in Season 1 was very short, but it left a big impact.
In season 2, the emphasis has increased. How do you feel about this? It was difficult to take off the mask and express complex emotions.
However, for an actor who needs to portray such complex and nuanced emotions, it was a very interesting character.
So it's a time when I feel more free and can "feel a certain fun" about acting.
Q. I'm curious about your thoughts on working with director Hwang Dong-hyuk. Usually, when season 2 comes out, people say, "It can't beat season 1," but I personally think that season 2 was better than season 1.
I found the script even more interesting when I read it. I thought, "Could there be another script as interesting as this?" But the director kept changing very small parts on set, and that was much better.
So I thought, "This person is not an ordinary narrator, he is a truly genius narrator." An actor needs to be confident in what his character is saying and doing.
The "Frontman" is the designer of all of these games, and in some ways he is the most opposite in his views to "Gi-hoon", but
Despite this, "frontmen" are human too, and there are very few of them, but I still think their humanity remains.
I had many conversations with the director about adjusting those lines.
In particular, there were many scenes where I had to express myself without dialogue, just with my facial expressions, and at those times I had to think more about what the character was thinking and how human he was.
I was constantly discussing with the director about how to adjust the water level for each cut. Q. How did you feel about working with actor Lee Jung-jae again?
It's been a long time since we last worked together since I appeared in a TV series with Lee Jung about 20 years ago.
I think we've become much more cautious and have become better actors with more weight.
I thought, "I'm going to take it." It was a great time working with fellow actors who I have a history with and a long-standing friendship with.